Bruce Parker and Graeme Yeo have worked together for more than 30 years.
ONE sign started it all.
Most could be forgiven for thinking the 30-year friendship between HM Gem’s Bruce Parker and Graeme Yeo started with sign language, but instead it was a cardboard sign tied around Graeme’s neck.
Mr Yeo is profoundly deaf.
“The first time I met Graeme was when he walked into our office (in Doncaster at the time) with a sign around his neck saying ‘apprenticeship wanted’,” Mr Parker said.
“I thought to myself that takes a lot of guts and hired him on the spot.
“And he is still here.”
Since then Mr Parker has introduced a company policy that any unskilled position available would go to someone with a disability.
They still communicate by writing notes to one another on pieces of paper and it is clear their bond is strong.
